Yearly Archives: 2012

WCMS Members – Don’t forget our next General Session is scheduled for Tuesday, December 4, 2012. The program is being held at the Ann Arbor City Club, 1830 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor. The Social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m., Dinner at 6:45 p.m., and the program at 7:30 p.m. The evening’s program…

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="120"] Federally-supported gun violence intervention program (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200"] Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] By Jerry Walden and Andrew Zweifler As of 2012 in the U.S.,guns continue to be associated with approximately 30,000 deaths per year. Over one-half of these fatalities are suicides and the…

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"][/caption] The following message was sent to Rick Snyder today. Dear Mr. Synder, The State House and Senate truly did lackadaisical work when providing the fiscal analysis for the proposed motorcycle helmet law repeal. Here are analyses performed for TennCare by the Tennessee state house…

The Washington state Medicaid program has enacted a concerning policy - limiting its beneficiaries to only 3 non emergency visits per year. A non-emergency under this policy would include a presentation for chest pain that is diagnosed as GERD.

WCMS Members – Submitted By Sallie Schiel This is a reminder that our next General Session is scheduled for Tuesday, February 28, 2012. The program is being held at the Ann Arbor City Club, 1830 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor. The Social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m., Dinner at 6:45 p.m., and the program at…

A link to the petition is here. Click on this link to SIGN THE PETITION! This is what you will be signing (and 238 other Michiganders have already signed so far) Veto Helmet-Law Repeal to Protect Heads and Michigan’s Bottom Line Greetings, I just signed the following petition addressed to: Governor Snyder. Dear Governor Snyder:…

By Cynthia Hegg Krueger, MD - President WCMS and Staff Pathologist VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System In recent years, the Washtenaw County Medical Society teeters on retaining our third district director on the MSMS Board. This is just one example of how membership numbers affect the representation and your voice in organized medicine. As has…